The perfect weather for hard work in the garden. Yesterday I got 10 bags (3 cu. ft. each) of mulch at Warner's and today we got 12 bags (2 cu. ft. each) at Moscarillo's, so Jim and I spread a full 54 cubic feet of mulch today. That's 2 cubic yards.
It didn't quite cover the spruce berm, but keep in mind we widened it by moving the yellowroot out and extending toward the new bridge. We still need more.
I took buckets of rotted leaves and partly done compost from the windrow in back and piled it around the sassafras, the clethra and the spicebushes on the back of the berm. Then covered the good rotten stuff with mulch.
Those plants all want moist woodland conditions, and they are competing with big spruce roots on a steeply banked berm. The decaying compost under the mulch will help with moisture.
I also toted and hauled buckets of half finished compost and rotted leaves to Meadow's Edge garden and spread that about. A lot of work, but it's good for the garden.
I'll cover that with mulch eventually. Right now it looks messy. I even got several buckets of finished compost from the tumbler.
Moved the cup plant from the berm out into the meadow.
Divided some geums.
My body hurts and I am tired.
